Backpacking your way through life

My analogy of life through a backpacker eyes.

Imagine yourself as a traveler walking through life with a backpack on your back.

Your life is the journey, the road ahead is your future and the bag on your back is your past.  As you walk through your journey of life you pick up rocks of all shapes and sizes along the way which symbolize memories and experiences from your past.

Now imagine you are walking forward on your journey with the bag on your back: it will be fine to have a couple of the rocks in the backpack, but if you carry too many heavy rocks around with you, eventually the backpack will get too heavy and you will no longer be able to continue moving forward. You become tired and overwhelmed with all the weight you carry around with you and can’t seem to want to move on with your life.

After a bit of time you see that to move forward once again you have to take the backpack off, look at those memories from the past, acknowledge the past for what it was, bank the good ones keeping them with you and dumping all those bad memories out of your backpack.

Forgive yourself or others if needed and keep the good ones with you.  Put the backpack on again and start/keep moving forward on to new adventures and people in your life.

Pain is inevitable but misery is a choice!

You can always get a bigger backpack but why bother, dump the extra weight in your life and save the great memories of your life. Pack that extra bottle of water or bottle of wine and enjoy the hike of your life. 

Anything can change in an instant so don’t waste time drugging up the past, it is gone, today is the only “real” day in your life and if you’re lucky you have a chance for another real day tomorrow.

 Ice

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